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The UK and France get powerful jobs in the new European Commission, overseeing financial services and economic policy respectively.

Annuity rates - which determine the value of private pensions - saw their biggest monthly fall in three years last month, according to research.

Reports suggest that the Swedish studio behind video game blockbuster Minecraft is on the verge of being acquired by Microsoft.

The UN's general assembly has called for a new international system to help countries resolve debt crises

Shares in carmaker Fiat rise after Luca Cordero di Montezemolo resigned as the chairman of its Ferrari division.

France's finance minister Michel Sapin says the country will not hit a 3% EU budget deficit target until 2017.